first edition Trade Paperback
2015 · New York
by McPherson, James M
New York: Penguin Books, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x5x8. First printing. Bottom edge creased. 2015 Trade Paperback. xiv, 301 pp. From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but that it is too easy to diminish him because of his causeâs failure. Gravely ill throughout much of the Civil War, Davis nevertheless shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacyâthe quest for independent nationhoodâwith clarity and force. He exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy, and his close relationship with Robert E. Lee was one of the most effective military-civilian partnerships in history. Lucid and concise, Embattled Rebel presents a fresh perspective on the Civil War as seen from the desk of the Southâs commander in chief. (Inventory #: 2339013)